House Panel Pushes Bill to Overhaul Texas School Financing
The House Education Committee advances a plan to revamp public school funding focusing on property value rather than district needs. If enacted, state and local taxes would fund about 700 dollars per pupil annually, with Edgewood in San Antonio singled out as a beneficiary and concerns over an 81 million dollar two year cost amid Gov Briscoe's tax stance.
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Edgewood
San Antonio
Dan Kubiak
Rockdale
Dolph Briscoe
Austin
House
Briscoe
Kubiak
Texas
Nance
Texas Education Agency
Kubiakenstate
State Board of Education
Jes Ea Oy Mae En
U.S
Texas Tech Law Grad Second in Bar Exam Results
A Texas Tech University Law School graduate posted the second highest bar exam score among 512 examinees. Elgin E. Conner Jr. of TCL Knoxville Ave. scored 88.25, while top scores of 88.75 were shared by Charles L. Carpenter of Houston and Timothy Duffy. Conner will be sworn in at ceremonies April 30 with a reception by the State Bar.
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Timothy Duffy
University of Texas Law School
State Bar of Texas
Conner
Smith and Bakler, Inc
Tex Watson Named President of Pioneer Natural Gas Co
K Bert Tex Watson of Amarillo former assistant Texas attorney general was elected president and chief executive officer of Pioneer Natural Gas Co at the annual meeting to succeed Burton P. Smith who will retire. Watson will lead PNG with duties starting June 1 1975 and the board declared a 21 cent quarterly dividend payable June 1 to holders of record May 10 1973. Watson is a West Texas native and long time Pioneer officer and director with a background in law and business administration.
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K. Bert
Tex" Watson
Amarillo
Texas
Pioneer Natural Gas Co
Watson
Burton P. Smith
Smith
PNG
PGN
Joy
David
Delk
Kenneth
Randall
Texas Tech University
Lew
Sandy) Browder
Austin
Pioneer
Amarillo Oil Co
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Water, Incorporated
Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scouts of America
Amarillo Bar Association
Pioneer Natural Gas Company
Pioneer Nuclear, Inc
Pinaga
Pioneer Transmiss Corp
Dennis Dennis seeks permit to cull downtown pigeons
Phoenix patric Dennis tells City Council he already killed at least 6000 pigeons over four years using a .22 pellet gun and cremated them. He argues pigeons spread lice and ticks and must be controlled. council takes his request under advisement.
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Phoenix (Ap
Patrick Dennis
Dennis
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Tex” Watson
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